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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. PlanetScale vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. NSDb vs. openGauss vs. PlanetScale vs. STSdb

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.42
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Websitealasql.orgnsdb.iogitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
planetscale.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
planetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffHuawei and openGauss communityPlanetScaleSTS Soft SC
Initial release20142017201920202011
Current release3.0, March 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJava, ScalaC, C++, JavaGoC#
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoall fields are automatically indexedyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageANSI SQL 2011yes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
Scala
C
C++
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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